Perceived enablers of 3D virtual environments for virtual team learning and innovation
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

Virtual teams consist of geographically distributed employees working with a common goal using mostly technology for communication and collaboration. Virtual teams face a number of challenges, discussed in the literature in terms of communication through technology, difficulty in building trust, conveying social cues, and creating awareness, as well as cultural differences. These challenges impact collaboration, but also learning and innovation. This research focuses on how a social medium, the 3D virtual environment, is perceived to enable learning and innovation in virtual teams. We study this through a qualitative study based on interviews of distributed work managers’ perception of VEs. The major findings are that VEs are perceived to create collaborative learning atmospheres for virtual teams in terms of enabling engagement, a shared context awareness, and support in social network building. Another finding is that VEs are perceived to enable team learning, knowledge development, and collaboration through persistence of content, information sharing, learning through role-plays and simulations, and visualization. Furthermore, VEs enable the development of co-created content as well as new ways of working in virtual teams.

Learning

3D virtual environments for work

Knowledge development

Virtual teams

Författare

Petra Bosch-Sijtsema

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Construction Management

Johanna Haapamäki

Aalto-Yliopisto

Computers in Human Behavior

0747-5632 (ISSN)

Vol. 37 395-401

Styrkeområden

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Ämneskategorier

Byggproduktion

DOI

10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.035

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